Cycling thread 2015

[joey_macmo]

Do you know if that power data is from his bike, or is it the strava estimated one? Sort of surprised they'd release his real values if that's what they are.

https://www.strava.com/activities/345923267/segments/8223093781

it's from his bike, he always gives his data

team sky have said that they think froomes data has been hacked from his latest training sessions and that people are adding 2+2 and getting 6 from what they are seeing apparently.

are team sky paranoid?? or trying to hide something?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/33517897

which is nothing to do with the strava post you quoted

 

[Wat Tyler]

team sky have said that they think froomes data has been hacked from his latest training sessions and that people are adding 2+2 and getting 6 from what they are seeing apparently.

are team sky paranoid?? or trying to hide something?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/33517897

The data is from Ventoux in 2013, when his numbers where even lower than today, 5.9 w/kg

 

[Bruce Wayne]

The data is from Ventoux in 2013, when his numbers where even lower than today, 5.9 w/kg

Which, again, is perfectly normal you'd imagine as it's a 21km climb, so surely it's to be expected to be a bit lower than a 9-10km climb? There just seems a lack of real rigour to the debates. I mean you'd imagine that all of the changes to training that Sky have bought in would do 'something', but no one seems to have any clue as to just what or how much. Without that, how can anyone really say what gains are bona fide and what are chemically enhanced?

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Agree that it's pointless looking at isolated power numbers and trying to draw conclusions. Whatever he is doing now, it's his (Froome's) rise from nowhere that is the most incredible and hard to rationalise. It's like you know Chris down the pub, skinny bloke who does a bit of cycling - he just came second in the Vuelta. Plus he's got a tropical disease that not a lot of people know about.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Agree that it's pointless looking at isolated power numbers and trying to draw conclusions. Whatever he is doing now, it's his (Froome's) rise from nowhere that is the most incredible and hard to rationalise. It's like you know Chris down the pub, skinny bloke who does a bit of cycling - he just came second in the Vuelta. Plus he's got a tropical disease that not a lot of people know about.

To be fair though in road racing terms it's no more strange than the improvement in Wiggins. Indeed Froome's early grand tours were better than Brad's.

 

[Sapie88]

Question for the guys who watch it, why don't they use Kraftwerks Tour de France as the theme tune?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Question for the guys who watch it, why don't they use Kraftwerks Tour de France as the theme tune?

Copyright I suspect. Bit of trivia for you. The famous Channel 4 intro music when they covered the Tour was written by a bloke from Buzzcocks.

 

[Sapie88]

Copyright I suspect. Bit of trivia for you. The famous Channel 4 intro music when they covered the Tour was written by a bloke from Buzzcocks.

Proper acid trip of a tune that.

The tune on ITV4 is quite jolly though.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Proper acid trip of a tune that.

The tune on ITV4 is quite jolly though.

Aye it's not bad. For all the hours of Eurosport coverage I've seen down the years, I can't recall their theme at all (if they even have one).

 

[Sapie88]

Aye it's not bad. For all the hours of Eurosport coverage I've seen down the years, I can't recall their theme at all (if they even have one).

My dad prefers Eurosport over ITV.

Something about the commentary he said.

 

[bluelife]

Eurosport coverage is absolutely ace....commentary makes you feel at home. Never liked the ITV 4 stuff

 

[Bruce Wayne]

My dad prefers Eurosport over ITV.

Something about the commentary he said.

I tend to agree, although it seems that most cycling commentators are a bit marmite. With so much air time to fill they have to talk a lot, and if you don't like the blokes then it can be a major turn-off. Good way to learn new languages though, tuning in to some of the smaller races on a dodgy foreign stream

 

[Sapie88]

I tend to agree, although it seems that most cycling commentators are a bit marmite. With so much air time to fill they have to talk a lot, and if you don't like the blokes then it can be a major turn-off. Good way to learn new languages though, tuning in to some of the smaller races on a dodgy foreign stream

On a tenuously relatedn note I'm doing one of those Sky rides with him.

 

[degsy]

Eurosport coverage is absolutely ace....commentary makes you feel at home. Never liked the ITV 4 stuff

Phil Liggett?

 

[bluelife]

Phil Liggett?

yeah never really much liked his commentary....it's a world different to Eurosport's style